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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Tail -f Command help Post 303026583 by Don Cragun on Friday 30th of November 2018 12:37:57 AM
Old 11-30-2018
Please show us the code you are using now. We especially need to see how you are accessing the remote file.

If you can directly access the file on the remote server, do you actually need a copy of the file on your Windows system, or do you just need to see new entries as they are added to the file on the remote server?

Trying to keep a local copy of a file synchronized with a continuously changing remote file can be tricky if you can't use tail -f /remote/file/pathname. You you can directly access /remote/file/pathname from your Windows server, tail should be all you need to keep with with changes being added to the file on the remote server and should also be able to keep a local copy of the file up-to-date with text appended to that file on the remote system.

If existing text in the remote file is being modified while additional text is being appended to the end of the file, your problem is MUCH more complicated than you have implied so far.
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cfgmgr.auth

cfgmgr.auth(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual						    cfgmgr.auth(4)

NAME

       cfgmgr.auth - Configuration management server authorization database

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/cfgmgr.auth

DESCRIPTION

       The  cfgmgr.auth  file lists the remote systems that are authorized to modify the local system's kernel subsystem configuration.  Using the
       sysconfig command, system administrators can maintain the kernel subsystem configuration on local and remote hosts.  To	secure	access	to
       the  kernel  subsystem configuration, the local configuration management server (cfgmgr) answers requests from remote systems only when the
       remote system is listed in the cfgmgr.auth file.

       Each entry in the file has the following form:

       host-name

       Where host-name specifies the full domain name of the remote host.  You must list each remote host on a separate line and  only	the  first
       128 characters of each line are read and processed.  Lines beginning with the pound sign (#) are comments.

       If  the cfgmgr.auth file does not exist, the configuration management server assumes no remote system administrators are allowed to config-
       ure, reconfigure, or unconfigure any kernel subsystem on the local host.

EXAMPLES

       The following shows entries in the cfgmgr.auth file on a host named buster:

       salmon.zk3.dec.com
       trout.zk3.dec.com
       bluefish.zk3.dec.com

       This cfgmgr.auth file allows system administrators on the salmon, trout, and bluefish hosts to configure, reconfigure, and unconfigure sub-
       systems on buster.

RELATED INFORMATION

       Commands: cfgmgr(8), sysconfig(8), sysconfigdb(8), kloadsrv(8)

       Files:  /etc/sysconfigtab(4)

       System Administration delim off

																    cfgmgr.auth(4)
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